Twin K-Shuffle Based Audio Steganography

Authors

  • Salamudeen Alhassan Department of Computer Science, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana
  • Mohammed Ibrahim Daabo Department of Computer Science, C. K. Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Navrongo, Ghana
  • Gabriel Kofi Armah Department of Business Computing, C. K. Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Navrongo, Ghana

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51983/ajeat-2022.11.1.3200

Keywords:

Steganography, K-Shuffle, Bit-Shuffling, Secret Message, Cover Audio, Stego Audio, Embedding Function, Extraction Function

Abstract

Secure communication is most effective when it is covert. In the realm of covert communication, steganography conceals secret message within a cover medium. This ensures that adversaries who have access to this carrier medium are unaware of the existence of the secret message. This paper proposes a novel twin K-Shuffling and embedding technique that scrambles and hides secret message inside audio samples. The scrambling phase of the proposed technique consists of bit and character shuffling. The bit-shuffling scrambles the bit-string of each character in the secret message into cipher-text via K-Shuffle. The characters of the resulting cipher-text are then shuffled by another K-Shuffle technique to yield chaotic cipher-text. At the embedding phase, the scrambled cipher-text is randomly planted into the carrier audio samples. The novelty in this proposed technique is the provision of a three-layer protection for secret messages; bit, character, and encoding layers. Results and analyses show that this technique satisfied both embedding and encryption requirements of steganographic systems.

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Published

14-01-2022

How to Cite

Alhassan, S., Daabo, M. I., & Armah, G. K. (2022). Twin K-Shuffle Based Audio Steganography. Asian Journal of Engineering and Applied Technology, 11(1), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.51983/ajeat-2022.11.1.3200